Osho and the End of the World Question
(Osho uses the English sixites Liverpool poet, Roger McGough to answer this question)
Beloved Osho, Please can you tell us when the world is coming to an end?
Sant Maharaj,
today 8th September, 1980, at lunchtime! .....
Meditate over this story, a poem by Roger McGough:
"When the bus stopped suddenly to avoid damaging a mother and a child in the road. the young lady in the green hat sitting opposite was thrown across me, and not being one to miss an opportunity I started to make love with all my body.
At first she resisted saying that it was too early in the morning and too soon after breakfast and that anyway she found me repulsive. But when I explained that this being a nuclear age, the world was going to end at lunch-time, she took off her green hat, put her bus ticket in her pocket and joined the exercise.
The bus people, and there were many of them, were shocked and surprised and amused and annoyed, but when the word got around that the world was coming to an end at lunchtime, they put their pride in their pockets with their bus tickets and made love one with the other. And even the bus conductor, being left over, climbed into the cab ansd stuck up some sort of relationshsip with the driver.
That night, on the bus coming home, we were all a little embarrassed, especially me and the yound lady in the green hat, and we all started to say in different ways how hasty and foolish we had been.
But then, always having been a bit of a lad, I stood up and said it was a pity that the world didn't nearly end every lunchtime and that we could always prtend. And then it happened... ... Quick as a crash we all changed partners and soon the bus was aquiver with white mothballbodies doing naughty things.
And the next day and every day in every bus in every street in every town in every country
People pretended that the world was coming to an end at lunchtime. It still hasn't, although in a way it has."
But, Sant Maharaj, if by any chance it does not end today, see you tomorrow!
